92 relations: Ais people, Anno Domini, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Apollo program, Archaic period (North America), Area code 321, Atlantic Ocean, Álvaro Mexía, Banana River, Belle Glade culture, Benjamin Harrison, Brevard County, Florida, Canaveral National Seashore, Cape (geography), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 3, Cape Canaveral Light, Cape Canaveral, Florida, Conflation, Conquistador, Countdown, Downrange, Dry Tortugas, Equator, Executive order, Florida, Florida Legislature, Florida Public Service Commission, Fort Caroline, From the Earth to the Moon, Geographical renaming, Grover Cleveland, Gulf of Mexico, Harry S. Truman, Harvard University, HGM-25A Titan I, Homestead Acts, Indian River (Florida), Jacksonville, Florida, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jean Ribault, John F. Kennedy, John Hawkins (naval commander), Juan Ponce de León, Jules Verne, Kennedy family, Kennedy Space Center, List of colonial governors of Florida, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mercury-Atlas 9, ..., Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Merritt Island, Florida, Mosquito Lagoon, Mount Taylor period, NASA, Orange period, Orlando Sentinel, Pedro de Ibarra, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Plantation, Port Canaveral, President of the United States, Project Gemini, Project Mercury, Reed bed, RTV-G-4 Bumper, Saturn I, Saturn IB, Skylab, Skylab 4, Smithsonian Institution, Space Coast, Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 46, Spaniards, Spanish Florida, Spanish language, St. Johns culture, Sugarcane, Surruque, Ted Kennedy, Thanksgiving (United States), Timucua language, United States, United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Congress, United States Department of the Interior, United States Navy, United States Post Office Department, United States Senate, V-2 rocket, Wall Street Crash of 1929, 81st United States Congress. Expand index (42 more) »
Ais people
The Ais or Ays were a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the Atlantic Coast of Florida.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas
Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 – 28 March 1626 or 27 March 1625) was a chronicler, historian, and writer of the Spanish Golden Age, author of Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano que llaman Indias Occidentales ("General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West Indies"), better known in Spanish as Décadas and considered one of the best works written on the conquest of the Americas.
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Apollo program
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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Archaic period (North America)
In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period or "Meso-Indian period" in North America, accepted to be from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.
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Area code 321
Area code 321 is the area code serving Brevard County, Florida and Seminole County, Florida.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Álvaro Mexía
Alvaro Mexia was a 17th-century Spanish explorer and cartographer of the east coast of Florida.
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Banana River
The Banana River is a lagoon that lies between Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the United States.
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Belle Glade culture
The Belle Glade culture, or Okeechobee culture, is an archaeological culture that existed from as early as 1000 BCE until about 1700 in the area surrounding Lake Okeechobee and in the Kissimmee River valley in the U.S. state of Florida.
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893.
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Brevard County, Florida
Brevard County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida.
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Canaveral National Seashore
The Canaveral National Seashore (CANA) is a National Seashore located between New Smyrna Beach and Titusville, Florida, in Volusia and Brevard Counties.
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Cape (geography)
In geography, a cape is a headland or a promontory of large size extending into a body of water, usually the sea.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) (known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station from 1963 to 1973) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing.
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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 3
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3) is a deactivated US Air Force launch site southeast of SLC-36 on Cape Canaveral, Florida at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Cape Canaveral Light
The Cape Canaveral Light is a historic lighthouse on the east coast of the U.S. state of Florida.
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Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida.
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Conflation
Conflation happens when the identities of two or more individuals, concepts, or places, sharing some characteristics of one another, seem to be a single identity, and the differences appear to become lost.
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Conquistador
Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.
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Countdown
A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur.
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Downrange
Downrange is the horizontal distance traveled by a spacecraft, or the spacecraft's horizontal distance from the launch site.
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Dry Tortugas
The Dry Tortugas are a small group of islands, located in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of the Florida Keys, United States, about west of Key West, and west of the Marquesas Keys, the closest islands.
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Equator
An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).
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Executive order
In the United States, an executive order is a directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government and has the force of law.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Florida Legislature
The Florida Legislature is the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.
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Florida Public Service Commission
The Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) regulates investor-owned electric, natural gas, water, and wastewater utilities.
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Fort Caroline
Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.
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From the Earth to the Moon
From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne.
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Geographical renaming
Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area.
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Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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HGM-25A Titan I
The Martin Marietta SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I was the United States' first multistage intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), in use from 1959 until 1965.
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Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws under which an applicant, upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, could acquire ownership of land, typically called a "homestead.” In all, more than 270 million acres of public land, or nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., was transferred to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River.
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Indian River (Florida)
The Indian River is a long brackish lagoon in Florida, and is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, which in turn forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
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Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (born Bouvier; July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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Jean Ribault
Jean Ribault (also spelled Ribaut) (1520 – October 12, 1565) was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
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John Hawkins (naval commander)
Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English slave trader, naval commander and administrator, merchant, navigator, shipbuilder and privateer.
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Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Kennedy family
The Kennedy family is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, and business.
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Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.
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List of colonial governors of Florida
The colonial governors of Florida governed Florida during its colonial period (before 1821).
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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Mercury-Atlas 9
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is a U.S. National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on the Atlantic coast of Florida's largest barrier island.
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Merritt Island, Florida
Merritt Island is a census-designated place in Brevard County, Florida, located on the eastern Floridian coast, along the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mosquito Lagoon
Mosquito Lagoon is its own body of water located north of the northern part of the Indian River Lagoon and is part of the Indian River Lagoon system and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
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Mount Taylor period
The Mount Taylor period or Mount Taylor culture was a pre‑ceramic archaeological culture in northeastern Florida in the middle to late Archaic period.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Orange period
The Orange period or Orange culture was a late-Archaic archaeological culture along the eastern side of the Florida peninsula, from about 4,000 years ago to about 2,500 or 3,000 years ago.
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Orlando Sentinel
The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region.
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Pedro de Ibarra
Pedro de Ibarra was a Spanish general who served as a Royal Governor of Spanish Florida (1603 – 1610).
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral and explorer from the region of Asturias, Spain, who is remembered for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys and for founding St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565.
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Plantation
A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.
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Port Canaveral
Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
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President of the United States
The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Project Gemini
Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program.
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Project Mercury
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.
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Reed bed
Reed beds are natural habitats found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions, and estuaries.
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RTV-G-4 Bumper
The RTV-G-4 Bumper was a sounding rocket built by the United States.
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Saturn I
The Saturn I (pronounced "Saturn one") was the United States' first heavy-lift dedicated space launcher, a rocket designed specifically to launch large payloads into low Earth orbit.
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Saturn IB
The Saturn IB (pronounced "one B", also known as the Uprated Saturn I) was an American launch vehicle commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the Apollo program.
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Skylab
Skylab was the United States' space station that orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.
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Skylab 4
Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third manned Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Space Coast
The Space Coast is a region in the U.S. state of Florida around the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 46
Space Launch Complex 46 (SLC-46) is a launch complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station operated under license by Space Florida for Athena rocket launches.
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Spaniards
Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.
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Spanish Florida
Spanish Florida refers to the Spanish territory of La Florida, which was the first major European land claim and attempted settlement in North America during the European Age of Discovery.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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St. Johns culture
The St.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.
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Surruque
The Surruque people lived along the middle Atlantic coast of Florida during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.
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Thanksgiving (United States)
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a public holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.
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Timucua language
Timucua is a language isolate formerly spoken in northern and central Florida and southern Georgia by the Timucua people.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Board on Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States Department of the Interior
The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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United States Post Office Department
The Post Office Department (1792–1971) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, in the form of a Cabinet department officially from 1872 to 1971.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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V-2 rocket
The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
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Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.
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81st United States Congress
The Eighty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canaveral